Worldwide routable Garmin maps: URL REMOVED

As the AR-Cordoba is a land-only tile (it does not cover part of the ocean) I think this is because a lake or riverbank polygon is not closed. But I could be wrong ofcourse.

Edit: oops, Iā€™m late to the party. :slight_smile:

Anyway, I hope that flooding problems in my maps will result in improved OSM coastlinesā€¦

@UliBƤr, I have tried some of Fabianowskiā€™s Full planet coastlines but those made mkgmap crashā€¦

@Lambertus,that blue is the sea polygon (0x32) in tile 63241589.img when you open it with gpsmapedit. So there must be some coastline wandering around on the Argentina Pampaā€™s :wink:
I think Wanmilsā€™ floodblocker will help in this case.

Thanks for checking Ligfietser. I will add the floodblocker option on the next update.

Tested a few tiles from the UK & Netherlands, the sea looks pretty good!

There is one remarkable tile in the UK set that doesnā€™t belong there (Greece/Cyprus):
http://planetosm.oxilion.nl/~lambertus/garmin/routable/10-02-2012/63241013.img

Great!

That has always been the case, as Cyprus is part of the UK in the CIA files Iā€™m using to identify which tile belongs to which country. Never took the trouble of removing Cyprus from the UK polygon file.

You better admit that you are afraid of Greekish or Turkish hatemail if you put this island in one of those countries sets? Cyprus is since 1960 not part of the UK :wink:

Hahaha, perhaps I could offer them to come over and drink some tea together.

:slight_smile:

I wrote a linux script based on this OSM_Combi bat script.
Donā€™t have the gmapsuppā€™s atm, will test it tomorrow, if it works iā€™ll post the script here.

The generated sea wasnā€™t visible in the mapnik.typ file (wrong draw order priorities) so I updated the typ file:
http://mijndev.openstreetmap.nl/~ligfietser/diverse/mapnik.typ(r2160).zip

In this zip file you can find two versions of this typ file, one with the default line types (mapnik-p.typ) and one with the mapnik coloured styles line types (mapnik-l.typ).

The first shows only the polygons in the mapnik colours, because the lines in the mapnik-l.typ has a fixed pixel width at all zoom levels and this looks uglier at lower zoomlevels (roads are too fat):


mapnik-l.typ


mapnik-p.typ / mapnik.typ

Hello,

I downloaded for the first time into my Garmin Nuvi the maps generated here and I have a request to make if it is at all possible.
Can the map be generated without the ā€œwoodsā€?
What I mean is that I live in a rural area surrounded by woods everywhere which translates into green spots on the GPS which makes the roads very hard to see.
I think if these maps are to be used for Car Gps they should just display roads, names, railways, water bodies, airports, golf courses, and perhaps buidlings and pois and such.
The map should be uncluttered imo.
Anyway thanks for offering these maps I really appreciate them.

Heres what it looks like around meā€¦ can you see the roads?

Yes, itā€™s easier to make the forests invisible than making the forests visible if they are not generated at all.
You only have to use and edit the mapnik.typ file I mentioned before. With the online typ file editor from http://ati.land.cz/gps/typdecomp/editor.cgi you can make the polygon type 50 (woods/forest) transparent.

Thanks for the hint lifietserā€¦ I downloaded the mapsource version and installed it but I cant find a .typ file anywhere???

Did you select ā€œInclude a typ fileā€ before you downloaded the mapset?
If not, you can install it afterwards with Mapset Toolkit or download it again and grab an updated copy of the typ file from my site: http://mijndev.openstreetmap.nl/~ligfietser/diverse/mapnik.typ(r2160).zip

Bummer, it looks like the editor is offlineā€¦ does any of your .typ files remove the green stuff?

Hi,
Iā€™m having trouble generating a custom map- Iā€™m trying to create a map with France plus an additional 3 tiles down to Barcelona. When I select these, enter my email address and hit ā€œBuild My Mapā€ I get an Invalid URL error messageā€¦ Any ideas what I could be doing wrong?

Cheers,
Dave
http://dc-onabike.com

Unfortunately not, you have to do it yourself. There are also offline editors, try http://pinns.co.uk/osm/ostyp.html
or Typviewer, https://sites.google.com/site/sherco40/home

It appears that the custom map server is not responding currently. Iā€™ll request the administrator for a reboot. Thanks for reporting.

Oops, no, the server has been up and running all the time, so thatā€™s not it. I just requested the same map as you did and did not encounter anything out of the ordinary. I received the first ā€˜statusā€™ email and Iā€™m waiting for the map to get readyā€¦

Update: Hereā€™s the download link for your map.

Thats too badā€¦ Quick question, how do I make the polygon to be transparent?

I even tried to delete it from the typ file but the green always shows up.
Thanks

My favorite editor is the typviewer from https://sites.google.com/site/sherco40/home

Goto Polygons and edit type 050, in the drawing mode, switch the colour from black to white, click on the bucket and pour the white colour on the black field in the right panel.
If you delete it from the typ file, the map picks up the default Garmin colour, which isā€¦green :wink:

Adding content for the Garmin - Experiences and advise

A couple of weeks ago I set out to add routes and interest points for a badly mapped area in Turkey with the intention to use the result on my Garmin. Unfortunately the next weekendā€™s update on this system did not run, so I could only test my contributions shortly before my return to Denmark.

By and large things did not work. Here are a couple of things that I learned, which I am now correcting and I want to share:

  1. It is necessary to join the roads correctly together. For navigation it is not enough that it looks nice on the map. The side road must end in a node on the main road (Potlatch shows double frame when success).

  2. For this purpose it is important to have enough nodes on the main road. Potlatch does not support addition of nodes in the middle of a road, only deletion/simplification, which may prove a pita (pain the the aā€¦ /back end) for the guy who travelled and logged and now wants to add the side road.

  3. For the same reason do not try to translate collected Garmin tracks directly into importable roads. The Garmin will almost for sure simplify the long and winding road. Use the Garmin track only to ensure where you were, but draw the exact road by hand based upon the blue line, but according to the Bing photo.

  4. The Garmin supports only some of the OSM interest point types. For example ā€œmyā€ area has almost solely Turkish and/or fish restaurants. Such do not appear in the searchable Garmin restaurant list, not even under ā€œotherā€. Only when focusing (enough) in on the map the knife-and-fork-symbol will appear together with the name: Leave cuisine at ā€œunsetā€. Similarly with attractions and all other types: Use only those that you have vverified up front to be known and searchable on the Garmin.

Apart from that (beginnerā€™s learning) the end-to-end system is just great.

Some 90% of what you see here - roads, tracks, interest points and road names - were added by me when there during the last two weeks: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=36.2487&lon=32.3522&zoom=12&layers=M

Next time I arrive it will all be debugged and working.

A big hooray to and for Lambertus :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile: